Medium Delirium

With these lines I tether myself to the fact of my existence.

  • no rest for the sweaty

    Finally, a moment to sit and write for abit. I’ve been thinking over the past few days about how I spend an inordinate amount of time on heat management. The weather has been perilously,…

  • revisiting: HCMC & memories of The Best Pho

    Parenthood milestone – took my first holiday since getting pregnant, a pocket-sized weekend getaway to Ho Chi Minh. I flew off on a Friday afternoon and was back on the couch by Sunday night;…

  • The weather this week has been infernally hot and humid; the storms and cool weather of the Lunar New Year seem to be well and truly over, and we hurtle straight on into the…

  • slogan central

    One of the perks of not staring at a screen while out in public is getting to read the things people wear on their clothes. Mostly you get run-of-the-mill stuff like JUST DO IT…

  • Oppressively humid day – the air hot, still, and heaving with moisture. Took a shower to cool off, and within minutes of exiting the bathroom and getting dressed, I was coated with a thin…

  • My poor mother has had to cancel a credit card because some enterprising hacker in the US has used it to spend $400 on Only Fans. Reporting the fraudulent transaction, she asked the bank…

  • festivities (fallout)

    It is a sad reality of Lunar New Year that as one gets older, the likelihood of receiving red packets decreases, a trend that is inversely proportional to the likelihood of catching a bug…

  • festivities

    It is the eve of Lunar New Year and the air is alive with festivity. It’s very weird, but as I get older I’ve been enjoying the (frankly ridiculous) fanfare surrounding LNY more and…

  • No sight of the Brahminy Kite on the rain tree today. In its place was a small cloud of pale yellow butterflies, flitting amongst the leaves like the sequence of a dream. By 10:30…